{"id":11808,"date":"2018-10-07T16:48:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T20:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11808"},"modified":"2018-10-07T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T20:48:16","slug":"episode-290-jason-lutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-290-jason-lutes","title":{"rendered":"Episode 290 – Jason Lutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 290: Jason Lutes<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Berlin was not a story that felt at arms’ length to me; there were many resonances with my life, and it’s all the most strange that the publication of this book coincides with a rise of nationalism in our own country.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>For the third installment in our ad hoc Germany\/fascism triptych, Jason Lutes<\/a> joins the show to talk about completing his 22-year opus, the 550-page graphic novel Berlin<\/a>\"\" (Drawn & Quarterly)! We talk about the changes in his life, his art, and comics publishing over that course of this project, the ways Berlin<\/em> evolved and changed over the years, Jason’s struggle not to re-draw panels or pages or full issues for the collected edition, what he learned about human nature and fascism in the course of making Berlin<\/em>, and the imaginative benefit of not having Google Image search when he started doing research for it. We also get into his storytelling and cinematic influences, the balance of formalism with fluid storytelling, what he’s learned from teaching at the Center for Cartoon Studies<\/a>, his epiphany at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum<\/a> during CXC 2018<\/a>, my inadvertent comparison of him to Britney Spears, and plenty more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Berlin<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“Print comics are constraint-driven, and I learned to work within those constraints.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n